Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Date	August 1 (heats) August 2 (final)
Winning time	2:16.8
Medalists
Lina Radke   Germany   Kinue Hitomi   Japan   Inga Gentzel   Sweden

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 800 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics took place between August 1 and August 2. Some press reports of the event claimed that many of the competitors were exhausted or failed to finish the race.^[1][2] According to Lynne Emery, these reports were inaccurate and the athletes were winded as normal after a race.^[1] In any case, the idea that the distance was too great for women prompted the IOC to drop it from the Olympic programme.^[2] It was reintroduced in 1960.^[2]

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marie Dollinger	Germany	2:22.4	OR, Q
2	Inga Gentzel	Sweden		Q
3	Bobbie Rosenfeld	Canada		Q
4	Anny Mallon	Netherlands
5	Elisabeth Oestreich	Germany
6	Dee Boeckmann	United States

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lina Radke	Germany	2:26.0	Q
2	Kinue Hitomi	Japan	2:26.4	Q
3	Gertruda Kilosówna	Poland	2:28.0	Q
4	Aat van Noort	Netherlands
5	Edie Robinson	Australia
6	Juliette Segers	Belgium
7	Sébastienne Guyot	France
8	Emy Pettersson	Sweden
9	Giannina Marchini	Italy
10	Rayma Wilson	United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jean Thompson	Canada	2:23.2	Q
2	Florence MacDonald	United States		Q
3	Elfriede Wever	Germany		Q
4	Mien Duchateau	Netherlands
5	Ida Degrande	Belgium
6	Marcelle Neveu	France
7	Otylia Tabacka	Poland	2:33.0
8	Josefine Lauterbach	Austria
9	Paula Radziulytė	Lithuania

Key: Q = Qualified

Finals

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lina Radke	Germany	2:16.8	WR
	Kinue Hitomi	Japan	2:17.6
	Inga Gentzel	Sweden	2:17.8
4	Jean Thompson	Canada	2:21.4
5	Bobbie Rosenfeld	Canada	2:22.4
6	Florence MacDonald	United States	2:22.6
7	Marie Dollinger	Germany	2:23.0
8	Gertruda Kilosówna	Poland	2:28.0
9	Elfriede Wever	Germany

Key: WR = World record

References

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Women's 800 m, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-08.

1. Emery, Lynne. "An examination of the 1928 Olympic 800 meter race for women" (PDF). Proceedings of the North American Society for Sport (1982): 30.
2. Welch, Paula; Costa, D. Margaret (1994). "A Century of Olympic Competition". In Sharon Ruth Guthrie & D. Margaret Costa. Women and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Human Kinetics. pp. 127–128. ISBN 9780873226868. Retrieved 12 August 2012.